Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns is
Full Professor of Early Modern History; Agrégé d'Histoire from the University
of Paris-Sorbonne (France); Docteur (1990) and
Docteur Habilité (1996) from the University of Toulouse (France); and a former Scientific
Fellow of the French Institute for Advanced Spanish Studies in Madrid, the
Casa de Velázquez (Spain),
where he spent three years.
Winner of both the OSU Faculty Associate Award for excellence in
interracting with student life on campus; and the OSU Scholarly Excellence Award
for excellence in scholarship in
1995, Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns was a Scholar-in-Residence at Trent University (Canada), and has taught at Tulane
University (USA); the Universidad of Toledo and the Universidad Complutense of Madrid (Spain);
the University of Rennes
(France).
He is currently teaching History and
Comparative Literature at the Universidad del Norte in Asunción,
Paraguay. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Hispania Sacra. He
was a member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Spanish and Portuguese
Historical Studies from 1991 to 1993; and organized the International
Meeting of the SSPHS in Puerto Rico in 1992. He served as Co-Director of the Mediterranean
Conferences from 1994 to 1998, with Dr. Norman Hollub. He organized highly successful congresses in
Rome (Italy); Murcia (Spain); Syracusa (Italy); Paris/Bordeaux
(France); and Istambul (Turkey). He is the Editor of Discurso Literario
and the organizer of a yearly International Symposium in the Humanities in
Paraguay.
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Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns served as
Chair of the History Department at the
Dowling College of New York
from 1997 to 2000,
before becoming Director of University
Press of the South
and Presses Universitaires du Nouveau Monde
from 2000 till 2009.
He is currently
Director of International Relations
at the Universidad del
Norte, in Asunción, Paraguay.
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Dr. Alain Saint-Saëns is a nationally
and
internationally renowned historian.
He authored three major books:
- La nostalgie du désert. L'idéal érémitique en
Castille au Siècle d'Or (1993).
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- Art and Faith in Tridentine Spain, 1545-1690
(1995).
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- Valets de Dieu, suppôts du Diable. Ermites et
Réforme catholique dans l'Espagne des Habsbourg (1550-1700) (1999).
Alain Saint-Saëns edited or co-edited
several volumes of articles:
- Religion, Body, and Gender in Early Modern Spain
(1991).
- The Early Modern Spanish Woman: Images and Realities
(1995) [co-edited by Magdalena Sánchez].
- Historia silenciada de la mujer española (1996).
- Sex and Love in Golden Age Spain (1997).
- Lesbianism and Homosexuality in Early Modern Spain.
Literature and Theater in Context (2000) [co-edited by María-José
Delgado].
- Young Charles V, 1500-1531 (2000).
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"Il
s'agit d'une démonstration globalement très neuve, de l'invention d'un champ d'études
qui dépasse largement le cadre de l'Espagne.
Alain
Saint-Saëns montre de manière remarquable, dans Valets de Dieu, suppôts du
Diable, comment l'érémitisme se dégrade sous la pression des évêques et d'une
Eglise tridentine qui se méfie d'eux. Un grand pan de l'histoire religieuse et
culturelle de l'Espagne est ainsi évoqué avec talent".
Robert Muchembled
(Université de Paris-XIII)
"Valets de Dieu, suppôts du Diable constitue une contribution
d'importance à l'étude de la pénétration, en profondeur, de la Réforme catholique à
partir de 1550. La démonstration est d'autant plus efficace qu'Alain Saint-Saëns sait utiliser avec habileté et science
des sources aussi diverses que l'iconographie, les oeuvres littéraires et spirituelles,
les archives diocésaines et les séries du tribunal de l'Inquisition. C'est là
l'oeuvre d'un historien accompli".
Louis Châtellier
(Université de Nancy)
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